 | Hawthorne's The Scarlet Letter (Cliffs Notes)
Publication Date: June 5, 2000| Series: Cliffsnotes Literature The original CliffsNotes study guides offer expert commentary on major themes, plots, characters, literary devices, and historical background. The latest generation of titles in this series also feature glossaries and visual elements that complement the classic, familiar format.In CliffsNotes on Hawthorne's The Scarlet Letter, you explore life in 17th-century Massachusetts as you follow the ordeal of Hester Prynne, who has been found guilty of adultery and sentenced to wear a scarlet letter A on her dress as a sign of shame. The ...
 |  | I Kill Me: Tales of a Jilted Hypochondriac
Publication Date: July 16, 2012Christine Bacon has a fatal attraction. To all things fatal. A veteran hypochondriac, her near-death experiences are exacerbated when her husband proposes they have a menage a trois with Eleanor, his busty British massage therapist, to "shake things up." Christine reluctantly agrees (although she is more wholesome than threesome), never expecting just how much she'd be rattled. As her marriage to Richard, a/k/a "Dick," falls apart, so, too, does Christine, whose fear of her own demise causes her to research every freckle, blemish, cough, bump, lump, tingle and ...
|  | One Good Friend Deserves Another
Publication Date: June 5, 2012HOW MANY OF THESE DATING RULES HAVE YOU BROKEN?1. Choose Your Own Man2. Make Sure Your Friends Approve3. No One-Night Stands4. Trust Your Instincts5. Never Make the Same Mistake Twice6. After a Break-Up, Wait Six Months Before Dating Again.Dhara, Kelly, Marta, and Wendy have been the closest of friends since college. So close, that after a series of romantic disasters, they bond together to create Rules of Relationships to keep their hearts safe.Years later, the rules seem to have worked . . . until Marta discovers that her hot boyfriend is married, Kelly begins...
|  | Genesis, Science & History: A Faith-Building Look at the Opening Chapters of Genesis
Publication Date: April 1, 2004This is a faith-building and eye-opening exploration of the scientific and literary themes in the opening chapters of the Bible. With attention to everything from theories about the age of the earth to the extent of Noah's flood, there is something for everyone in this readable, informative look at Genesis 1-11. The author attempts to show science and the Bible ned not be pitted against one another in the minds of sincere, informed believers. ...
|  | Dancing Shadows: Tales of the Supernatural by Bernard Capes
Publication Date: June 20, 2011Bernard Capes is not as well known as many other classic writers of speculative fiction, but he left behind a wide range of stories involving ghosts, werewolves, and other supernatural elements. His work shows a depth of language, and a enjoyment for the craft of writing itself. This collection includes 41 stories of romance, mystery, vengeance, horror, humor, and the weird. ...
|  | Torchwood: Everyone Says Hello: A Torchwood Audio Original Narrated by Burn Gorman
Publication Date: January 5, 2010| Series: Torchwood An exciting original short story written exclusively for audio and featuring narration by cast member Burn Gorman. Across Cardiff, ordinary people are behaving in odd ways: saying hello to one another, and going out of their way to greet people. Torchwood discovers that an alien communications field is gathering strength in the city. The team must find the device responsible and shut it off-before civil unrest engulfs the city. ...
|  | First Spring Grass Fire
Publication Date: September 18, 2012Transgender indie electronica singer-songwriter Rae Spoon has six albums to their credit, including 2012’s I Can’t Keep All of Our Secrets. This first book by Rae (who uses "they" as a pronoun) is a candid, powerful story about a young person growing up queer in a strict Pentecostal family in rural Canada.The narrator attends church events and Billy Graham rallies faithfully with their family before discovering the music that becomes their salvation and means of escape. As their father's schizophrenia causes their parents' marriage to unravel, ...
|  | Fortunes Desnos (Collection Pobesie) (French Edition)
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|  | Amerika America
Publication Date: April 1, 2002Poetry. "Zuckerman juxtaposes our rich and often willful U.S. American landscape against those other landscapes of th world upon which we impose such a negative influence yet before which we are conditioned to turn away. She does this with keen observation, lyric grace and exceptional poetic power. Perhaps the poems ofAMERIKA/AMERICA signal a return of the spirit of the sixties and seventies, when it was all right to empathize with humans everywhere. I hope so"-Margaret Randall"The guy whose bumper sticker says "USA Love it or Leave it" / weaves in and out of t...
|  | Book Collecting 2000 (Collected Books)
Release Date: January 10, 2000| Series: Collected Books A brand-new, expanded handbook of estimated market values of first printings of first books, revised and updated for the new millennium. Like its previous editions--hailed as "the standard guide to market worth" (The Washington Post) and "required reading" (Southern Living)--Book Collecting 2000 is more than a simple listing.It is an exhaustive guide to the basics and finer points of book collecting and the book trade for novice and professional collectors, as well as dealers and librarians. It identifies which books to collect, where a...
|  | A Cultural History of Latin America: Literature, Music and the Visual Arts in the 19th and 20th Centuries (The Cambridge History of Latin)
Publication Date: August 13, 1998| ISBN-10: 0521626269 | ISBN-13: 978-0521626262A Cultural History of Latin America brings together chapters from Volumes III, IV, and X of The Cambridge History of Latin America. The essays place Latin American literature, music and visual arts in historical context, from the early nineteenth century through the late twentieth century.Topics include narrative fiction and poetry; indigenous literatures and culture; the development of music, sculpture, painting, mural art, and architecture; and the history of Latin American film. Each chapter is accompanied...
|  | Sir Thomas Malory and the Cultural Crisis of the Late Middle Ages (American University Studies Series IV, English Language and Literature)
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|  | This Same Earth (Volume 2)
Publication Date: April 15, 2012 Beatrice De Novo thought she had left the supernatural world behind... for the most part. But when the past becomes the present, will she leave her quiet life in Los Angeles to follow a mystery she thought had abandoned her? Where has Giovanni Vecchio been, and why has he returned? Giovanni has his own questions, and he's looking to her for answers. This Same Earth reunites Beatrice and Giovanni to continue their search through the past while both wrestle with the future. When the world as you knew it has changed forever, i...
| | The Select
Publication Date: August 1994"Tight, entertaining...Wilson lights out for the medical-thriller territory charted by Robin Cook and Michael Chrichton." -- San Francisco Chronicle."An ingenious major-league thriller that penetrates the unknown of medicine... frightening." -- Clive Cussler"Will paralyze you with excitement!" -- Detroit Free Press. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title....
|  | Sunburn
Publication Date: January 1995Joey Goldman, the illegitimate son of the Godfather, turns to his friend, reporter Arty Magnus, for help when his father decides to retire and needs a ghostwriter to help him write his memoirs, but there are many enemies out to stop the project. 15,000 first printing. ...
|  | Unprintable
Release Date: November 3, 1998| Series: Crime Line It is possibly the most repugnant piece of fiction in all of England. So why is Plumtree Press, one of the country's most respectable publishing houses, about to add the hotly controversial new novel to its list? Publisher Alex Plumtree isn't talking. Hardly anyone knows he has taken on the project as a favor to the Prime Minister. Forget the bad press and hateful reviews. Alex swiftly finds himself on the wrong side of a lawsuit, bugged, betrayed, roughed up, and implicated in murder....
|  | T-Ball Trouble (Tomie Depaola's the Barker Twins)
Release Date: July 22, 2004| Age Level: 3 and up | Grade Level: P and up...
|  | Tierra de Osos. Gran Coleccion Disey (Spanish Edition)
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|  | Death in the Air (The Boy Sherlock Holmes)
Release Date: October 13, 2009| Age Level: 10 and up | Grade Level: 5 and up...
|  | Nutik, the Wolf Pup
Release Date: January 9, 2001| Age Level: 4 and up | Grade Level: P and up In an Eskimo village at the top of the world lived a little boy whose name was Amaroq. Named for the great wolf leader who saved the life of his big sister, Julie, Amaroq loved wolves as much as his big sister did.One day Julie brings home a sickly wolf pup named Nutik for Amaroq to feed and tend. "Don't fall in love with Nutik," Julie warns, "or your heart will break when the wolves come to take their pup home." Amaroq feeds and cares for Nutik, and soon the fuzzy little pup is romping and playing and following Amaro...
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